Pre-Institute+Logger+Notes--June+15

The day started with the selection of a logger. Steve took up the mantle.

We made introductions that went around the world, from Renee's passion for the USA to Mary's world travels. And O my my, the experience in teaching everyone is truly remarkable: every subject, every level is represented.

Dr. Kear stopped us for the minutiae of WSU registration. Wish I could say it was fun. . . but the credit was free.

But the end of registration marked the mystical beginning of our SCKWP writing experience, as Journal notebooks and SCKWP pens were distributed.

Jeff used the Author/Reader's chair to ask us to think about why we write and how it develops our lives every day as he read the first chapter of Julia Cameron's __The Right to Write__. Cameron writes of how tranformative words are for all of us, (not at all unlike Linda's metamorphing in her career).

Jeff's writing prompt was then from Cameron as well, a plea to write "where you are now" no matter what that might entail, and to go "where the current takes you." There are meaningful, powerful words inside all of us at all times, and the new SCKWP fellows proved it! Linda, Renee, Alexa, Mary, Charrica, Steve, and Jeff all showed how writing flows through them.

Alas, more minutiae: CLASSWORK!! Everyone signed up for Logger Notes, Article Summaries, Teacher Demos, Author/Reader's Chair, and a Writing Prompt. But everyone survived.

So SCKWP forges on, we live to tell the tale of the Pre-Institute meeting, and perhaps, if we're not careful, the experience might change us all!